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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
TopicSoft skills

Topic: soft skills

‘Namaskar ma’am’—UP Police kick off skill-based training, focus on communication, sensitivity, AI

4 lakh personnel to undergo three-module training by team of 40. It is designed to improve soft skills, technical competencies & decision-making in real life situations. 

Only 42.6% Indian graduates are employable; non-technical skills, creativity low—Mercer report

The Mercer Mettl report draws insights from data collected from more than 2,700 campuses across 31 states and union territories, covering over one million students.

Delhi has a new skill university: 39 courses, over 6,000 seats and 13 campuses

Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University has opened admissions for 4,500 seats in diploma programmes, 1,300 for bachelors degrees, 250 for B. Tech & around 100 for Masters programmes.

Do you think your kids text better than they can write? You need to worry

Some schools in Scandinavia are no longer teaching children to write by hand.

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Kerala, Keral, Keralam. I’m a Malayali and the name change is more annoyance than pride

North Indians are so used to dropping the ‘A’ at the end of Kerala. Now they have to train themselves to add another letter.

‘Dark chapter’ over, Chhattisgarh budget sets Naxal hotbed Bastar on path to ‘education cities’ & tourism

The Vishnu Deo Sai government's 2026-27 budget outlined a post-Naxal era vision for Chhattisgarh's tribal-majority belts of Bastar & Surguja. Finance Minister OP Choudhary presented it Tuesday.

Decoding India’s defence budget & how various govts struggled to spend it—from UPA to NDA

Every February, headlines focus on defence budget allocation. But real question is—how much money was actually spent & why did promise-delivery gap widen in some years, narrow in others?

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.